Full moons and retrogrades: astrology explains recent volcano eruptions around the world
Holy hell fire, there’s been not one, not two, but three volcanoes actively shaking and scorching the Earth this week.Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano began shooting lava on Tuesday morning, following the fire of Italy’s Mount Etna, which began erupting on Monday.Meanwhile, the island of Santorini is bracing for maximum magma as the region has suffered a swarm of earthquakes in recent days.How do the stars figure into the shaking soil and the volcanic spew?I’m so glad you asked.For astrology believers, the sky is a mirror of the Earth, and celestial hijinks and happenings are reflected in the natural world and in the dynamics of human nature.On February 10, the day the latest rash of eruptions began, the moon entered Leo, a fixed fire sign associated with outbursts, over-the-top gestures and pageantry of every kind.The moon in Leo and the sun in Aquarius are both forming a tense AF square with Uranus, our planet of sudden change, shock and awe, and unruly events.
When two luminaries square one another, there’s bound to be friction, and because the planets in question all fall in fixed signs, the effect is amplified.Uranus is currently side-spinning in the blessed bull dirt of Taurus, suggesting a destabilizing (Uranus) influence on the earth itself (Taurus) with the added emotionality and fireworks of Leo.Full moons are about culmination and release, they intensify emotions and illuminate and often blow the damn roof off what can no longer be ignored or endured.Add to the magma that in numerology, 2025 is a 9, a number associated with Mars, the red-hot warlord of drive, desire, and eruptions of the sexual and volcanic kind.Further, Mars, our planet of action, is currently retrograde in Cancer, the sign of buried resentments and internalized anger.
Without a healthy pathway for expression, the fire of Mars oft leads to explosive episodes.As a point of reference, “Real Housewives of New Jersey” hothead Teresa Giudice was born with Mars in Cancer.Mars typica...